In Response To: Re: Speculation about jump starting Jupiter (Gre'Thor117)
: Still, it would be interesting to have a binary system among us. I brought
: this to my friend, and he thought that it would screw up the orbits of all
: of the planets in the Solar System. I disagreed: The now
: "flaming" Jupiter would still have the same mass, and would
: still continue to orbit the Sun, like Earth and the other seven- minus
: Jupiter and Earth- (now eight, right?) planets. Only after several
: millenia will a notable mass difference could be detected, since stars
: radiate photons of light and radiation, but the mass difference would be
: small.
Jupiter can't sustain fusion with it's current mass. Jupiter needs around 80 times the mass for fusion to spark.
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